Word: manifestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York police force units who spent the rest of the day trying to keep order, led off the parade, followed by such distinguished Legionnaires as Herbert Lehman and Fiorello LaGuardia, local Governor and Mayor. The day warmed. Spotters posted down the Avenue from the reviewing stand pulled manifest inebriates out of line before the notables could see them. Hours passed, 100 Army planes droned overhead, the crowds heard 493 bands, saw 800 floats, gasped at a Negro Legionnaire who marched on two padded stumps cut off at the knee and another who kept up with the procession in a wheelchair...
...National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners. "The logical solution of the railroad difficulties," he drawled, "seems to be one national railroad system. Such a system should result in a simple rate structure, no differently rated territories, uniform tariff classifications, transportation wastes reduced to a minimum, and many other manifest benefits. . . ." More significant were other remarks by Chairman Miller on the matter of railroad freight rates. Without particularizing, he declared that the I. C. C. is conducting an intensive study of the rate problem and that he himself favors a new system based solely on costs of operation instead...
Effeminate, bookish, a graduate of the University of Nashville at 14, William Walker was successively surgeon, lawyer, journalist before he was 29. In that year, having absorbed as much as he could hold of the expansionist propaganda then parading as the "manifest destiny'' of the U. S., he decided to colonize the Mexican state of Sonora. Short of men and food, still shorter on experience, the expedition lasted through seven months of skirmishes, mutinies, desertions, marauding and general futility. Relieved to get out alive, Walker limped across the U. S. border with 34 survivors, surrendered...
...content to guess, Republican Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan introduced a resolution in the Senate declaring it the "sense" of that body. The President should appoint Justices of the Supreme Court only when the Senate could act on the nominations before the nominees began service. Said he: "It is manifest the Senate can't be a free agent to exercise responsibility under the Constitution to confirm Supreme Court nominees if the Senate can't act until after a nominee has put on his robes and served for many months as an integral part of the Court...
...twinkle Wells implies: perhaps the Martians feel sentimentally indulgent towards us. Anyhow he still sticks to his hopeful story, Martians or no Martians: "A new sort of mind is coming into the world, with a new, simpler, clearer, and more powerful way of thinking. That I think is manifest. It has already got into operation individually here and there and produced a sort of disorder of innovation in human affairs...